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In addition to being one of Santa Barbara’s greatest cultural treasures, the annual full-dress opera produced by the Music Academy of the West has to be among contemporary music’s most concentrated ...

SANTA BARBARA — At one point in James Joyce’s short story “The Dead,” the talk around the supper table turns to Dublin’s Theater Royal. One character had just seen “Mignon.” “Of course it was very ...

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One of the most popular operas of the 19th century is updated to Weimar Berlin, though 21st-century tastes may still find it a little coy Ambroise Thomas ’s Mignon was one of the most popular operas ...

Operagoers who like to hark back have been kept busy recently, attending revivals of rarely performed works guaranteed to stir up fond memories. A French confection popular at both the Metropolitan ...

Opera tunes were constant fodder for home music-making in the 19th century. One tune from the now-defunct opera "Mignon" by Ambroise Thomas has provided Suzuki violin students pleasure — or pain — for ...